Finale of Seem, A Lyrical Narrative

The radical American poet's second book, 1929

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Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Card wraps, titled to spine with emblem to front cover. Fore-edge untrimmed. 19.5 × 14.5cm, xii + 92pp.

Walter Lowenfels was an American poet, journalist, and member of the Communist Party USA, and this was his second book. He wrote it whilst travelling in Florence and Paris, meeting the literary figures of the time: Henry Miller, T S Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, and this book is the result of his exposure to Imagist writers. He later founded the Carrefour Press with Michael Fraenkel. He returned to the United States but was arrested and convicted due to his political beliefs during the McCarthy trials.

Condition

There is light damage to the spine ends and the spine is creased. The contents are in good order, with clean pages but the inner binding is a little pulled in places, though no pages are loose. Some marking to the covers.